Reforms agenda

Reforms agenda

I thank President Soeharto for showing his political will to
conduct political reform. What is required now is the courage to
make choices of what is to be reformed, which would be given
priority.

The House of Representatives will have to decide the choices
and set priorities based on inputs received from within the
House, the government and from society. The reforms should be
done in the spirit of togetherness and in good faith, for the
benefit of the nation, not for a certain group.

In conducting the reforms the following points should be
strongly considered:

* Everybody must highly uphold honesty and trustfulness and
discipline.

* Trickery, manipulation, corruption, collusion, nepotism and
cronyism must be uprooted.

* People must be kept well-informed of the progress of reforms.

* Law must be strictly upheld.

* People's economic situation must be based on the family
principle which benefit the whole nation instead of the
privileged few.

* A Top-down process must be changed into a bottom-up process.

* Good business ethics must control all business deals.

To guarantee the success of the much-desired reforms,
President Soeharto himself will have to supervise the process of
reforms, and push it as and when necessary. It should be fully
understood that the reforms are meant to correct and straighten
out all mistakes and weaknesses we have been living with for the
past three decades. Only successful reforms will be able to
restore the people's and international confidences.

H.W. PIENANDORO

Bogor, West Java